Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:41:00 -0400
From: Peter Moore
To: "W0KIE mail list"
Subject: [W0KIE] Audio on Video Heads--Listen up, T+D!
I was listening to last night's Tom and Darryl show when Tom (or was that
Darryl?) made the comment that you don't record the audio with the video
heads on a VCR. You CAN you know...
Take a patch cable with RCA male plugs and plug one end into the baseband
output of your IRD. Plug the other end into the Video IN port of the
HI-FI VCR. Record. Depending on the bandwidth of your video heads, the
VCR should be recording all signals between 1 Hz and 4 MHz (or higher).
Once your recording is done, you take the signals from the Video OUT port
and plug them into the signal input of an FM tuner (SCA/Carrier Current
receiver or FM2 receiver such as the Universal SC-50) and play the tape.
I have successfully recorded FM2 signals this way, but only up to around
5MHz. Apparently, my VCR doesn't go higher than that. Some do, I've
heard...
-Original idea from "The Hidden Signals on Satellite TV" by Thomas P.
Harrington, Third Edition.
Have fun! :^)
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